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1 | Can anyone recommend a good study book? | Bible general Archive 3 | idsimmons | 172687 | ||
I'm looking for a recommendation for my study group. It is 6-men. We can meet once every 2-weeks for about 2 hours. Can anyone recommend a good study book? |
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2 | Can anyone recommend a good study book? | Bible general Archive 3 | eklektos | 172690 | ||
Any study book that you read will have someone's opinion written within the pages. There is one Book and One only that can bring you Life. There is one Book that will bring you to your knees. There is one Book we are commanded to read. No matter what is said, the final word on the matter is Scripture. The Bible is written in such a way that the words written within mature as you mature. We have much technology and many abilities earlier fathers did not have and yet many are farther away from the Father than those. As Paul states, we have such a cloud of witnesses, we really should be ashamed that we are so far from the Father. Always looking for some easy way to go through the gate. Looking for the path of least resistance. Well, there is only One path and Jesus told us how to learn all there is to know about the Father. "Man shall not live ... but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God." We can have Philo, Josephus, Pink, Packer, Spurgon, Graham and these are good and not to be trod upon but they all contain a man's opinion and therefore contain a bias someplace. There is One Book and One only. If one could master the book of Psalms and the book of Proverbs and of Job and of the Gospel of John, and ... well, there you go, book after book within the Book. Scripture alone I think is the call. The Holy Spirit is promised to guide us unto ALL understanding, if we are willing. In an hour when we know not what to say, the Holy Spirit is promised to give us the words to speak. Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I Am. In your closet in prayer we see the Father. "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Worship Him in Spirit and Truth and you will know Him for He will show Himself to you. "Will ye also go away?" ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." Yes, but, ...! eklektos |
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3 | Can anyone recommend a good study book? | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 172691 | ||
"In order to be able to expound the Scriptures, and as an aid to your pulpit studies, you will need to be familiar with the commentators: a glorious army, let me tell you, whose acquaintance will be your delight and profit. Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think or say that you can expound Scripture without assistance from the works of divines and learned men who have laboured before you in the field of exposition. If you are of that opinion, pray remain so, for you are not worth the trouble of conversion, and like a little coterie who think with you, would resent the attempt as an insult to your infallibility. It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what He has revealed to others." --Charles H. Spurgeon "By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves." --William Hazlitt "Not to know what has transacted in former times is to continue always a child." --Cicero The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7 ESV) |
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4 | Can anyone recommend a good study book? | Bible general Archive 3 | eklektos | 172694 | ||
I believe in an earlier post it was said, "these are good and not to be trod upon", pertaining to commentators and historians, that that point might have been overlooked. And, looking back on multitudes of previous posts, we can see a vast number of quotes and referrals to these great persons of the past, however, we cannot say that a foot has no need for an eye or the eye is foolish because of its needs. When this happens the foot must say to the eye, "I shall turn the other cheek". eklektos |
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